[560] in bugtraq
Re: CERT, about NFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steinar Haug)
Thu Dec 22 11:29:04 1994
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 15:08:39 +0100 (MET)
From: Steinar Haug <Steinar.Haug@runit.sintef.no>
To: Dave Mitchell <D.Mitchell@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <9412221253.AA23721@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
> >> 1. Do *not* self-reference an NFS server in its own exports file.
> >> 2. Do not allow the exports file to contain a "localhost" entry.
>
> If a fileystem is exported to a netgroup, and that netgroup includes
> the local host (ie the name of the host, not "localhost", then does this
> count as self-reference?
Yes. This is precisely the problem.
Steinar Haug, SINTEF RUNIT, University of Trondheim, NORWAY
Email: Steinar.Haug@runit.sintef.no
